Marvin Stole the Show

I went to see the new Hitchhiker's film this morning, I have been preparing myself for it for the past month or so, I've re-read all the books, watched the original TV series, listened to the radio series and played the computer game.

I'm not going to write a long waffling review of the film here, you can get it already in so many different places from much better film critics than myself, I'm just going to give you a quick, spoiler free summary of what I though of the film.

The film is far enough away from the original to keep your attention, but close enough to not annoy you.

There are a number of things in it that are totally different to the book, things that have been added as well as a lot of stuff that was missing (that probably should have been there) but it had all the right laughs in all the right places and I think Douglas Adams would have been pleased with it.

Marvin stole the show - the new look robot really works, he had the best lines (but then he did in the book too), and Alan Rickman as the voice of the paranoid android was truely inspired.

It was also nice to see the cameo appearance of the original Marvin.

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